1953 in poetry

	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
Years in literature:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
Decades in poetry:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

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John Ashbery, Turandot and Other Poems
W. H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles" poem first published; his poetry book of the same name will be published in 1955
James K. Baxter, The Fallen House, New Zealand
Charles Causley, Survivor's Leave
Robert Creeley, American published in Europe:
- The Kind of Act of^[1]
- The Immoral Proposition^[1]
E. E. Cummings, i — six nonlectures from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures of 1951-1952 (Harvard University Press)
Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
Louis MacNeice, Autumn Sequel
Charles Olson:
- In Cold Hell, In Thicket, published in Origin as its eighth issue
- Mayan Letters, letters to the poet Robert Creeley, report on the author's research into Mayan hieroglyphs and discuss Olson's ideas on "objectism" in poetry. (criticism)^[2]
Karl Shapiro, Poems 1940-1953, New York: Random House^[3]
W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle, New York: Knopf^[3]
Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems
John Heath-Stubbs, New Poems
John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright. editors, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950, a selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse
R.S. Thomas, The Minister
Melvin Tolson, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

John Heath-Stubbs edited this volume, published in the United Kingdom, which included poems from these writers: Dannie Abse – Drummond Allison – Eurasia Anderson - William Bell – Thomas Blackburn – Maurice Carpenter - Alex Comfort – Yorke Crompton – N. K. Cruikshank – Keith Douglas – George Every – John Fairfax – G. S. Fraser – John Gibbs – W. S. Graham - F. Pratt Green – J. C. Hall – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn Jones – Sidney Keyes – Francis King – James Kirkup – Norman Nicholson – I. R. Orton – Michael Paffard – Kathleen Raine – Anne Ridler – Walter Roberts – W. R. Rodgers – Joseph Rykwert – John Smith – Muriel Spark – Derek Stanford – J. Ormond Thomas – W. Price Turner – John Wain – John Waller – Vernon Watkins – Gordon Wharton - Margaret Willy – David Wright

April 6 — Idris Davies, Welsh poet, originally writing in Cymraeg, but later writing exclusively in English.
July 16 — Hilaire Belloc, 82, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer whose "cautionary tales", humorous poems with a moral, are the most widely known of his writings, from burns resulting from a fall into a fireplace
November 9 — Dylan Thomas, 39, Welsh poet, from a cerebral incident;
November 30 — Francis Picabia, painter, poet
date not known:
- Helena Jane Coleman
- George Herbert Clarke

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^ ^a ^b Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
^ Christensen, Paul, Web page titled "Charles Olson's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
^ ^a ^b M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340